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January 14, 2014!
http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/lucinda-williams-rough-trade-album-set-for-re-release-on-january
WB
Lu’s Facebook page is polling fans on what they think the cover should be on the re-release: The original cover or the photo on the original blown up. I say do the blow up on the CD (due to the CD’s smaller physical size) and the original on the vinyl.
According to Butch Norton, it has been an “amazing week” of recording with Bill Frisell, Greg Liez and David Sutton. Eleven tracks in the can, all recorded live. And more to come this coming week.
Pursuant to a FB post, Lu’s in the studio:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151935568174189&set=pb.12788249188.-2207520000.1381150842.&type=3&theater
WB
Here’s a review by CMT Edge:
http://www.cmtedge.com/2013/09/23/americana-fest-lucinda-williams-landmark-album-turns-25/
Lu & band were in fine form, one of the best Lu shows I have ever seen. Pics will be posted on No Depression in a couple of days. We sat/stood with folks from the UK, Australia, Ireland and all over the US, including Twang Nation himself. What a way to cap five freaking fabulous days in Nashville.
Lu will perform the Rough Trade album on Sunday September 22 to close this year’s AMA:
http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/lucinda-williams-performance-to-close-americanafest-2013
What’s up with the new record deal? And, of course, a re-release of the Rough Trade LP? Come Fall it will have been 25 years. Come March it will be 27 years since I first saw/heard Lu in Austin.
While it’s been awhile since we last got an update on the re-issue, a couple of the albums on vinyl are currently on eBay. BTW, I am not parting with my signed copy (vinyl, of course) that I’ve had since it’s original release. And since we are on the topic of vinyl, why can’t we have “SOW'” and “Essence” on LP?
Any update on the Rough Trade re-release?
I first saw Lu in Austin in ’87 where performed most, if not all, of the songs that were to be on the album. And I asked myself and others — where’s her record? Well, it would be another year or so. I got it at Tower in NY. Then went to my local store and asked him to get it in. He did, my credibility went up 1,000%.
Long story short, Lu got me back into whatever label you want to put on it — and despite other claims, it was the first “altcountry” record.
Like Lee Wiley of jazz vocalists, Lu set the standard. So many imitators, so many false prophets, so many poseurs…. and to paraphrase Paul Newman, “Why settle for hamburger when you’ve got steak.”
I know it’s also a labor of love, take the time to get it right.
Yes, I have all of them — the NY & LA shows. Thanks for the clarification.
That said, what’s the status of the re-release of the Rough Trade recordings? And what’s the DVD?
While there are many recordings — I would think — of Lu in the mid-to late 80’s, don’t forget about her ’89 performance on Mt. Stage here in West Virginia. I remember it well — no one, I mean absolutely no one, in the audience other than yours truly had any idea who she was. I had only seen her once since that ’86 Texas show and I was primed. Brian Blauser — the Mt. Stage house photographer — gave me a picture of that performance. Sweet.
No case needs to be made for the record’s re-release as it should never have gone OOP in the first place. It is, quite simply, the most significant recording in the history of altcountry — not only was it the first, yes I say first, altcountry record, but was the record that established female artists as a force to be reckoned with. (I am not, of course, forgetting or slighting Joni, Janis, Bonnie, Joan and others who made it on their own terms). Not only do I have the LP. EP and the Koch CD, I first saw Lu in 1986 where she performed nearly all, if not all, of the songs on the LP. It was a religious experience — not since first seeing Townes in 1969 had I become a disciple and spread the word. I look forward to the re-release and it extras, including the DVD!
